Liver transplantation in primary biliary cirrhosis: Risk assessment and 11- year follow-up

Digestion

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 38-43

  Rust, Christian ^b   Rau, Horst ^b   Gerbes, Alexander L ^b   Pape, Gerd R ^b   Haller, Mathias ^b   Krämling, Hans Jörg ^b   Schildberg, Friedrich W ^b   Paumgartner, Gustav ^b   Beuers, Ulrich ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Liver transplantation; Primary biliary cirrhosis; Prognostic models; Survival

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BONE DENSITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; OSTEODYSTROPHY; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL;

EID: 0033925528     PISSN: 00122823     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000007776     Document Type: Article

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